Don McKenzie wrote:
Mine arrived yesterday, but it has a problem. Either the video or the
screen has a fault. Shows a big patch of colour and white bands up in
the top left side of the screen. Unuseable. Waiting on a return
authorization from COTD....

Ok, this damn thing is almost unusable!
The silly trackpad thing interprets a click or double click almost every
time I touch the damn thing and I can't figure out how to disable this "tap"
feature, anyone know?
I just want to use the pad as a mouse and nothing more. It has perfectly
good mouse buttons under it.
The Elantec control panel gives an option to change the sensitivity of it,
but it doesn't really help much, no option to disable that I can see.

Have you looked under Options (double-click Elantech icon in the tray, Elantech
tab, Options button)? It has most gestures listed, tapping, scrolling, zooming,
rotation and many more. You can enable/disable each of them and adjust
sensitivity for some (maybe all?).

Don't know about your settings and how heavy are your fingers but since I found
out all these gestures I never use buttons - its so much easier to scroll or
right click with two or three fingers.

I have always hated those trackpad thingos, so I never go anywhere
without a miniature mouse, and these days, a miniature USB thingo to
match. And I don't even need to remove the USB device to put it in the
supplied bag. They make them very short these days.

But yes, where do you put your mouse?

Well in a plane it's easy.
In a seat waiting for a plane, I use the arm of the seat, or a seat
beside me. Or what is left of your lap if you are really struggling.
I'll do any thing but use the track pad.

I have generally found a table and chair at an airport if I have to hang
around a long time, and with these internet kiosk type things, you just
throw it in front of their screen. 4 out of 5 are never in use anyway.